Amen rhymes with:

adv 1: anew; "she tried again"; "they rehearsed the scene again" [syn: again, once again, once more, over again]

n 1: an additional name or an epithet appended to a name (as in `Ferdinand the Great')

n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in Nursing, AN]

n 1: a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game 2: a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily [syn: bullpen, detention cell, detention centre]

n 1: the body of individuals who manage businesses [syn: businessmen, business community]

n 1: a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist [syn: catechumen, neophyte]

n 1: plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red [syn: cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, long pepper, jalapeno, Capsicum annuum longum] 2: ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum [syn: cayenne, cayenne pepper, red pepper] 3: a long and often twisted hot red pepper [syn: cayenne, cayenne pepper]

n 1: a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname] 2: the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) [syn: surname, family name, cognomen, last name]

n 1: a female actor in a comedy 2: a female comedian

adj 1: belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public; "for the common good"; "common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community" [ant: individual, single] 2: having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap" [ant: uncommon] 3: common to or shared by two or more parties; "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor" [syn: common, mutual] 4: commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting" [syn: common, usual] 5: being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" [syn: common, vernacular, vulgar] 6: of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" [syn: common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed] 7: of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population" [syn: coarse, common] 8: lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" [syn: coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar] 9: to be expected; standard; "common decency" n 1: a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park" [syn: park, commons, common, green]

n 1: the habitation of wild animals [syn: lair, den] 2: a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws [syn: hideout, hideaway, den] 3: a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts 4: a room that is comfortable and secluded

n 1: half the width of an em [syn: en, nut]

n 1: 100 fen equal 1 yuan in China 2: low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "the fens of eastern England" [syn: marsh, marshland, fen, fenland]

n 1: a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure [syn: foramen, hiatus]

n 1: a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)

n 1: adult female chicken [syn: hen, biddy] 2: adult female bird 3: flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing 4: female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster

n 1: (Greek mythology) the god of marriage 2: a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin [syn: hymen, maidenhead, virginal membrane]

n 1: range of what one can know or understand; "beyond my ken" [syn: cognizance, ken] 2: the range of vision; "out of sight of land" [syn: sight, ken]

n 1: a unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions [syn: lumen, lm] 2: a cavity or passage in a tubular organ; "the lumen of the intestine"

n 1: the force of workers available [syn: work force, workforce, manpower, hands, men]

n 1: female peafowl

n 1: a writing implement with a point from which ink flows 2: an enclosure for confining livestock 3: a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play [syn: playpen, pen] 4: a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes [syn: penitentiary, pen] 5: female swan v 1: produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels" [syn: write, compose, pen, indite]

n 1: a pen for swine [syn: sty, pigsty, pigpen]

n 1: a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play [syn: playpen, pen]

n 1: (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) [syn: regimen, regime]

n 1: in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination [syn: shaman, priest-doctor]

n 1: the male reproductive organ of a flower

adj 1: being one more than nine [syn: ten, 10, x] n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system [syn: ten, 10, X, tenner, decade] 2: one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face [syn: ten-spot, ten]

adv 1: subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors); "then he left"; "go left first, then right"; "first came lightning, then thunder"; "we watched the late movie and then went to bed"; "and so home and to bed" [syn: then, so, and so, and then] 2: in that case or as a consequence; "if he didn't take it, then who did?"; "keep it then if you want to"; "the case, then, is closed"; "you've made up your mind then?"; "then you'll be rich" 3: at that time; "I was young then"; "prices were lower back then"; "science as it was then taught" adj 1: at a specific prior time; "the then president" n 1: that time; that moment; "we will arrive before then"; "we were friends from then on"

n 1: an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security [syn: United Nations, UN]

adj 1: not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind; "uncommon birds"; "frost and floods are uncommon during these months"; "doing an uncommon amount of business"; "an uncommon liking for money"; "he owed his greatest debt to his mother's uncommon character and ability" [ant: common] 2: marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind; "what is so rare as a day in June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree" [syn: rare, uncommon]

n 1: English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723) [syn: Wren, Sir Christopher Wren] 2: any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects [syn: wren, jenny wren]

n 1: a yearning for something or to do something [syn: hankering, yen] 2: the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen v 1: have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover" [syn: ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish]

n 1: a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family); "a Boston brahman" [syn: brahman, brahmin] 2: a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas; "originally all brahmans were priests" [syn: brahman, brahmin] 3: the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category [syn: brahman, brahmin] 4: any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding [syn: Brahman, Brahma, Brahmin, Bos indicus]

n 1: a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family); "a Boston brahman" [syn: brahman, brahmin] 2: a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas; "originally all brahmans were priests" [syn: brahman, brahmin] 3: the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category [syn: brahman, brahmin] 4: any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding [syn: Brahman, Brahma, Brahmin, Bos indicus]

n 1: the smallest detectable sensation [syn: threshold, limen]

n 1: a mountain or tall hill; "they were climbing the ben"

n 1: East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil [syn: sesame, benne, benni, benny, Sesamum indicum]

n 1: a submachine gun operated by gas pressure; used by the British in World War II [syn: Bren, Bren gun]

n 1: wild goose having white adult plumage [syn: Chen, subgenus Chen]

n 1: informal term for information; "give me the gen on your new line of computers"

n 1: made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921-) [syn: Glenn, John Glenn, John Herschel Glenn Jr.]

n 1: a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues [syn: nitrogen, N, atomic number 7] 2: the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees [syn: north, due north, northward, N] 3: a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram; equal to 100,000 dynes [syn: newton, N] 4: (of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents of solute per liter [syn: normality, N] 5: the 14th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: N, n]

n 1: Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718) [syn: Penn, William Penn] 2: a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [syn: University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Penn]

n 1: a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel

n 1: English logician who introduced Venn diagrams (1834-1923) [syn: Venn, John Venn]

n 1: a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked [syn: sebaceous cyst, pilar cyst, wen, steatocystoma]

n 1: school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith; China and Japan [syn: Zen, Zen Buddhism] 2: a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained through direct intuitive insight [syn: Zen, Zen Buddhism] 3: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen]

n 1: the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the southeastern corner of the state [syn: Cheyenne, capital of Wyoming] 2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne 3: a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)

n 1: an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism [syn: Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN]

n 1: a nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick [syn: licensed practical nurse, LPN, practical nurse]

n 1: a priest who served a particular deity in ancient Rome

n 1: the first name of a citizen of ancient Rome

n 1: a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at Thebes [syn: Amen, Amon, Amun]

n 1: a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal [syn: cerumen, earwax]

n 1: Pharaoh of Egypt around 1358 BC; his tomb was discovered almost intact by Howard Carter in 1922

n 1: a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits) [syn: examen, examination] 2: a critical study (as of a writer's work)